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David Shestokas, author of Constitutional Sound Bites joins the Unbiased Americans to discuss constitutional law and his book on how to make it easy to understand. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wNlF3hZzO8

“We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.” The preamble of the Constitution was not discussed nor debated at the Constitutional convention. In fact, it was added at the last moment by the head of the Committee of Style, Gouvernuer Morris, a delegate from Pennsylvania. The preamble itself did not have any substantive legal meaning. Yes,...

Joseph Bast, President and CEO of The Heartland Institute, joins us to discuss "Why Scientists Disagree About Global Warming," and the NIPCC report on global warming. Is there a consensus? Is warming dangerous? We answer some of the most important questions regarding Climate Change and the policy implications regarding the conclusions of the IPCC.

The original intent of the framers, contained in the words and clauses of the Constitution are hotly debated in order to ascertain what they meant to the states at the time of ratification in order to better understand the intent, purpose and functionality of the American polity. Among them, is whether the framers intended to create republic or a democracy. A cogent definition of either is needed in order to refute one or the other however; democracies have existed and exist today in varying degrees, making a concise definition nearly impossible. The distinction falls somewhere between a direct democracy and...

During and the day after, many people have been lamenting yesterday's GOP debate. I've heard people call it a "clown show" "embarrassing" "a bunch of spoiled brats" etc. My question to these people is: what did you expect? Did people expect a robust debate on the merits of judicial review and jurisprudence that incorporates the Bill of Rights into the 14th Amendment, or how protectionist tariffs harm those people that are most vulnerable by increasing the prices of goods and services--maybe you expected them to discuss the merits of separation of powers, American sovereignty and the right to self-government? RNC...

Core inflation (Consumer Price Index minus food and energy prices) is on the rise in the healthcare industry. The three measures that most analysts and commentators use to gauge whether healthcare costs are on the rise are total healthcare spending, medical care costs and the costs of providing health insurance (Forbes), and all three are on the rise (CNN). Both medical care and health insurance have been steadily increasing: In January, health insurance rose 1.8% and is 4.8% higher than a year ago (BLS) Medical care costs in the same year have risen 3% (BLS) The subsidies have helped lower...

We hear often in the media and on the campaign trail from Donald Trump's adversaries about his less than conservative positions on eminent domain, health care, late-term abortions, bank bailouts and support of various left-wing candidates. We hear an awful lot of Hillary's past indiscretions, though, as a former First Lady, Senator and Secretary of State, who ran for president 8 years ago, that should be of little surprise. What is surprising (not really) is how little we hear about Bernie's past and his support for "radical change" and a "political revolution." It seems the left is always running from...

A Constitution in the breach: the most egregiously poor SCOTUS decisions of all time. There are several I will cover in chronological order. I will try to make them as concise, incisive and succinct as humanly possible. 1. MARBURY V. MADISON (1803) WHY: Established the extra-constitutional power of judicial review from which all other activist decisions originate. BRIEF BACKGROUND: (The background here is thick and involved and I want to spare you from as much of it as possible, it can get awfully boring. I want to, however, give you enough information that you will better understand the motivations behind such...

With the death of Antonin Scalia, many conservatives and libertarians have been lamenting the political power shift within the federal judiciary. However, few people have been lamenting the constitutional review powers of nine unelected lawyers — a judicial power they were never intended to have. Think about it: why would the states and the people create a document expressly limiting the federal government, and then grant to it sole power to restrict itself? Did the framers intend to create a document that safeguarded already existing individual rights and the sovereignty of the states from an entity it deemed the sole...

he dynamics of the economic marketplace in many South American countries has been due mainly to political instability based on the effort of South American leaders to centralize government’s economic and political power at the expense of individual liberty. Economic mechanisms are sometimes used to subsume the individual into the state, and grow executive power. However, neo-liberal market reforms instituted in Chile after the coup that ousted Allende, slowly eroded executive power during a tacit shift towards individual freedom. This in turn increased economic production that eventually lead to the peaceful ousting of Pinochet’s authoritarian dictatorship, and a thriving economy....

Unbiased America is graced by the presence of Julia Erynn, former Miss Minneapolis and current Alpha News reporter. Rounding out the show is Julian Adorney, savvy political commentator, FEE author, and new admin of Americans For Capitalism. They talk Trump's recent caucus wins, how much Trump is the same as FDR, and also, healthcare — like, why isn’t it free already? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXzcl4DtMDc

If slavery was the open, festering wound on the body of the nascent American republic, Jim Crow and “the racial state” that followed after its abolition was the unsightly scar it left behind. A republic built on the idea that “all men are created equal” could not long endure with the existence of such a “peculiar institution” that was frighteningly anathema to everything our founding fathers fought for. Slavery in the United States was unique from other parts of the world as it relates to its own founding principles and how those most interested in its perpetuation, rationalized its existence....

The “affordable housing” movement advocated by politicians on both sides of the political isle, contributed, in part, to the housing bust of 2008. Aside from the use of the nebulous phrase by federal government politicians of “affordable housing”—making an exact definition elusive—also created a national problem where one did not exist. Moreover, the blame was placed on the market, rather than a myriad local laws in specific housing markets that restricted land use and perverted the economic incentives for people to create more housing. The subjectivity of “affordable housing,” reduces it to an arbitrary term by eliding any sort of...